February 20, 2014

Where the World’s Greatest Photographers Go to Get Away – NYTimes.com

Did this image catch your eye? If it did, you need to check out the NYT slideshow from whence it came. A beautiful escape.

Martin Parr, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

‘‘I don’t record just pure natural beauty,’’ Parr says. ‘‘That’s not
what I’m into.’’ But on the Isle of Eigg, even when shooting something
as quotidian as a clothesline, he admits that sometimes beauty ‘‘creeps
in.’’ For the past 40 years, Parr has vacationed in the Scottish
islands. Now he is considering a book and a show on Scotland largely
comprising photographs he has taken theoretically off the clock. ‘‘I
don’t believe in holidays. Why would you go away from the thing you
love?’